Exmoor House at Wheddon Cross: sample dinner menus

Pease soup (from a 16th-century recipe)

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Twice-baked three-cheese soufflé

starters are served with our home-made bread
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Breast of local chicken stuffed with herbs from our garden,
wrapped in bacon & served with a tomato & olive sauce

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Poached leek-wrapped salmon with a white wine sauce

Served with: sautéed potatoes; spring greens; cauliflower
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Dark chocolate & coffee mousse

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Baked blackcurrant & vanilla cheesecake

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Selection of Somerset cheeses with biscuits & homemade pickle
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Coffee, tea or a choice of herbal/fruit infusions

Leek & potato soup

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Salad of home-smoked duck breast with an elderberry vinaigrette

starters are served with our home-made bread
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Proper pie of local venison (made with Frank’s all-butter pastry) with a red wine sauce

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Lentil croquettes with a herby or spicy sauce

Served with: mustard mash; courgettes cooked in white wine & butter; green beans with garlic
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Syrup sponge with clotted or double cream

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Pear poached in red wine, with a red wine reduction

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Cheese from Somerset with biscuits & homemade chutney
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Coffee, tea, infusions

Tomato, celery & apple soup

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Mushroom ‘loaf’ with home-made chutney

starters are served with our home-made bread
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Slow-cooked local lamb shank on a bed of lentils & savoy cabbage

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Fishcakes (made with smoked Cornish pollack)
with a crème fraîche & caper sauce

served with: twice-baked potato cakes; posh mushy peas; buttered carrots & swede
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Chocolate-almond cake with raspberries

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West Country burnt cream

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Choice of Somerset cheeses with biscuits & our own pickle
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Coffees, teas and other hot drinks

Carrot & lovage soup (the lovage is from our garden)

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Pâté of smoked Cornish mackerel with salad & home-pickled samphire

starters are served with our home-made bread
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Pan-fried fillet of local pork in a Somerset cider, cream & mustard sauce

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Proper pie of Somerset cheddar, shallots & vegetables (with Frank’s all-butter pastry)

served with: crushed new potatoes; roast vegetables
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Caramel-apple cake served warm with clotted or double cream

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Choice of home-made ice creams & sorbets

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Local cheese with biscuits & our own pickle
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Coffee, tea, herbal or fruit teas